Y2 - Home Learning - 11th March 2017

Fluency in Addition and Subtraction.
If children are able to recall or quickly work out simple addition and subtraction facts they will be flexible and confident in their use of number at all levels.  Once they know or can quickly calculate these facts they can work out new and more complex problems.  In Year 1 and 2
we teach strategies for facts within 10 (steps 1 – 7) and in Year 2 we teach the bridging ten facts (steps 8 – 11).  Try using dominoes or cards to practice the simple addition and subtraction facts on this page.

1. Adding and Subtracting 1 (e.g. 7 + 1 and 1 + 7)
2. Doubles and near double of numbers to 5 (e.g. 3 + 3, 4 + 5, 5 + 4)
3. Adding and Subtracting 2 (e.g. 4 + 2 and 2 + 4)
4. Number bonds to 10 (e.g. 8 + 2, 2 + 8, 10-2=8 and 10-8=2)
5. Adding 0 to a number (e.g. 3 + 0 and 0 + 3)
6. Adding 10 and subtracting 10 from a number (e.g. 5 + 10 and 10 + 5, 13+10, 23-10)
7. The ones without a family 5 + 3, 3 + 5, 6 + 3, 3 + 6 (these pairs of facts are the only ones which don’t fit in any of the other families, though the last two can be related to counting in 3s)
8. Doubles of numbers to 10 (e.g. 7 + 7)
9. Near doubles (e.g. 5 + 6 and 6 + 5)
10. Bridging (e.g. 8 + 4 and 4 + 8, 12-5 and 13-7)
11. Compensating. (I know 37-10 is 27, so 37-9 must be 28)

For home learning this week I would like you to see how many of these you know or can work out really quickly.  Fill in the missing squares on this grid, there are also some quick addition and subtraction facts for you to calculate.

 

Y2 - Trip to the Market - 7th March 2017 for 8th March 2017

Hopefully, weather permitting, we will be heading to Dorchester Market tomorrow morning.  If you are available to come along with us please let a member of the year 2 team know. 

Y2 - Theatre Company Visit - 3rd March 2017

The school were super lucky on Friday 3^rd March to have into school ‘The Hobgoblin Company’ who performed ‘The Greatest Fairy-tale of all’. It was wild, wacky, funny, brilliantly acted out and I was super proud of the class who sat for 1hr ¼ superbly attentive and joining in when asked. The actors praised the school for their participation at the end.  I hope your child has told you about it?!

Y2 - Praise Assembly - 3rd March 2017

The children in the entire class were praised today for their super determination in learning how to sew through their Design Technology topic at the moment which is linked to Victorians.  We were also extremely impressed with the variety of spider facts and webs which arrived in class through the week. The children shared their work on Friday and exchanged facts. Do look on the classroom wall displayed, amazing Home Learning achieved in Year 2!

Y2 - A mysterious plea - 3rd March 2017

For a top secret project I will be requiring 11 large cardboard boxes and extra cardboard for Monday 6th March.  If you have a spare box at home and were going to recycle, please could you bring it in to school on Monday?  We will collect them in the year 2 classroom.
Kind Regards

Y2 - Literacy Learning - 22nd February 2017

This week we have been looking at the ingredients for writing a sentence.  The children decided that there are some essential ingredients for writing sentences:
Nouns - things, objects, places and people.
Verbs - doing words.
Pronouns
Full Stops, Exclamation Marks or Question Marks
Capital Letters
and...
Your sentence must make sense.

We also learned that there are some extra magical ingredients to make your sentences extra sparkly:
Adjectives - Describing words.
Commas
Speech punctuation
Adverbs - Words that describe verbs (how something is done), such as quickly, happily, noisily.
Connectives - words such as and, but, because, so or while, that join simple sentences together.

Have a go at using the ingredients at home to make your own silly sentences.

Y2 - Maths Learning - 22nd February 2017

This week the children have been learning about Fractions.  Many of the children can confidently name halves and quarters and some children have begun to talk about thirds.  We have coloured pictures, found fractions of quantities and practiced writing fractions as numbers.  At home you can talk about fractions when cutting up food, telling the time and sharing things out between two and four.  Remember with fractions everyone must have a fair share!  You could also try playing this game.